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Inside the System-Business As Usual:
The Harlem Four....................................... | 149 |
Philip Charles Cooper

| Book Reviews |  | Reviewed by |

The Quality of Hurt: The Autobiography of Chester Himes ...............................Loyle Hairston | 155 |

| Foul: The Connie Hawkins Story ......Marshall C. Brown, Sr. | 158 |

| A Star to Steer By ........................Henry B. Kasbohm | 160 |

| I Am the Darker Brother ......................Patricia Gow | 162 |

| The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America......................................Earl A. Cash | 164 |

| Recent Books ............................................ 166 |
| Ernest Kaiser |   
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AMONG OUR CONTRIBUTORS

The cover drawing is by artist Benny Andrews whose work is included in major art shows and galleries. Growing up in a large family in rural Georgia, Mr. Andrews started drawing at an early age. He is at present active in the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition which seeks to include Black artists in leading museums.

Loyle Hairston is a Contributing Editor of FREEDOMWAYS and a founding member of the Harlem Writers Guild.

Marshall C. Brown, Sr. is Chairman, Physical Education Department, Essex County College, Newark, New Jersey.

Henry B. Kasbohm was Chief Engineer on the S. S. Booker T. and is presently active in community and peace organizations in New York City.

Patricia Gow is Vice-President, Oregon State Poetry Association. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals.

Early A. Cash teaches in the Department of English, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque.

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ADAM POWELL-Measure Of The Man

THE DIVERSITY, dimension and potential of Adam Clayton Powell's life were overwhelming. His political base was Harlem, the world's most famous ethnic community. This was his window on the world. His active political career started in the Spring of 1931 when he led a mass delegation of six thousand Harlem citizens to City Hall to demand the reinstatement of five Black doctors who had been arbitrarily fired from Harlem Hospital. His long career in American politics came to a sad and unceremonious end when he was deprived of the Chairmanship of the powerful Education and Labor Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. His chairmanship of this committee was the high-water mark of his political career. In this capacity he exerted strong influence over the passage of sixty major pieces of legislation in his committee. He never had a proposal cleared by his committee defeated once it reached the floor of the House. The Chairman's role and disposition toward a respective bill are the most important elements in determining its life and death in the tortuous journey through Congress. In this respect A. Clayton Powell was a political tactician of the highest order.

In the intervening years between the beginning and the end of his career Mr. Powell was a leader in the fight for political representation in the Harlem community. In 1938, with Rev. William Lloyd Imes, then pastor of St. James Presbyterian Church, and A. Philip Randolph, he formed "The Greater New York Coordinating Committee for the Employment of Negroes." This committee fought for the right of Harlem citizens to hold jobs in the stores of the community, drive buses and work for the Gas, Electric, and Telephone companies that serve the community. This committee was the springboard for his political career.

In 1941, he mounted a united front campaign for his election to the City Council of New York. The fight to make Harlem a Congressional District was accentuated by this election. In 1944 he became Harlem's first Congressman. His position in the community was strong enough for him to support Benjamin Davis, a communist, for his seat in the City Council. The partnership between Adam Clayton Powell and Benjamin Davis gave Harlem two effective and popular political representatives.

A. Clayton Powell was many things to many people. In Washington, reporters and legislators competed in denouncing him. In Harlem

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